Thursday, May 12, 2016
Was Judo started in Cornwall
in 1985 I wrote an article for Martial Arts Magazine is was a
suggestion the Judo originated in Cornwall BEFORE you laugh read the article I
have included as a Jpeg or contact me for PDF. I thought I had lost the article
but it was sent to by a Cornish Wrestler. Since that article I have moved into
Sambo, modern day Competitive Judo is not for me as it has had so many
techniques removed that it is no longer the sport I done in my Judo hey days
thank heavens they have not messed around with Kata the thing that make Judo
unique.
Sambo has now been divided into Sport Sambo and Combat Sambo. Since being involved with Russian practitioners of Sambo I have come across many other Jacket Wresting styles which were hidden when we had the USSR here are just a few Kurash Uzbek Gulesh Azerbaijan , Bokh Mongolian, Lucha Canaria, Chidaoba Geogia plus many more. Kano visited Russia and had Russian students like Vasily Oshchepkov the founder of Sambo. so it was quite probable he would be aware of the different style of Jacket
Sambo has now been divided into Sport Sambo and Combat Sambo. Since being involved with Russian practitioners of Sambo I have come across many other Jacket Wresting styles which were hidden when we had the USSR here are just a few Kurash Uzbek Gulesh Azerbaijan , Bokh Mongolian, Lucha Canaria, Chidaoba Geogia plus many more. Kano visited Russia and had Russian students like Vasily Oshchepkov the founder of Sambo. so it was quite probable he would be aware of the different style of Jacket
For thirty years I have
studied the Martial Arts/Sport of Judo, to me
the cream of all Martial Arts and Combat Sports, and in
that time I
have been quite successful
reaching 5th Dan Standard, International
Competitor, coached home and
abroad as a professional coach since 1971
With some degree of success,
and like most good Judo players I have
tried other forms of
grappling disciplines, i.e. Olympic wrestling, Sombo
Wrestling, at well at other
Martial Arts such at Karate, Jiu-Jitsu,
and Atemi Jutsu, reaching 3nd
Dan Jiu-Jitsu, 2nd Dan Atemi Jutsu, world
Silver Medallist in Jiu-Jitsu
and I am at the present, the British Team
Managed and Coach or the
British Sombo wrestling Team. The more I became involved in other Combat
Sports/Arts, the more I began
to question the origin of
Judo, and what I would like to do it to pose
a few questions to you, the
reader. I neither agree on disagree with
the following points.
According to history, Jigoro
Kano formulated his own style of Jiu-Jitsu and called it Kodokan Judo after studying
different styles of Jiu-Jitsu for just 4 years and all at the age of 22 years.
The idea of this new concept Judo was take all the dangerous parts away from
Jiu-Jitsu to make a safe and practical (also practicable) Martial Art. After
practising and watching lots of different Martial Arts from all oven Europe and
North America, and meeting high grades from all over the world, Judo always seemed
to stick out like a sore thumb, a definite aristocrat among Martial Arts, the
more different styles of Jiu-Jitsu I saw the
more remote Judo seemed remote
judo seemed from them, with the
exception of Goshin Jutsu and Atemi Jutsu, but then both these styles of Jiu-Jitsu
were invented by Judo men. Then in the early seventies I came across Sombo(Sambo)
wrestling, this is a Russian form of wrestling using a jacket, the Rules were
different but the concept was the same , so Judo was not a unique form
of grappling, further
information led me to find out that Sombo Wrestling
was founded in 1938, but
Sombo, a very fine sport, still did not have
the upright posture normally associated
with Judo, and had more in
common with Freestyle wrestling.
So maybe Kano did invent a new Systemof6 combat? But my doubts have been
awakened again, indecently on I.T.V.
they showed a one hour programme
on Cornish wrestling, and I could not
believe my eyes. Here was practically
a replica of what Judo was twenty
years ago, the clothing was
very similar to some old photographs I had
seen of Judo players at the turn
of the century, could this be just
another copy 0of Judo, on was
it an original concept? To find out,
I phoned the Cornish
Wrestling Association, and found out some
interesting facts.
1. They can prove Cornish
Wrestling dates back to the 14th-15th century.
2. A banner depicting Cornish
Wrestling was flown at Agincourt.
3. Cornish Miners, who at the
turn of the century emigrated to
Kenya and Australia, took
with them Cornish Wrestling
After Commander Perry opened
Japan to Western World many nations
traded with Japan, including Britain,
with many ships sailing from Plymouth, and could not some Cornish Seaman
arriving in Japan start practising there Cornish Wrestling and could not a
young Jigaro after seeing this and finding Jiu-Jitsu inadequate for his needs,
have based his new Judo on Cornish Wrestling? Before the Judo puritans attack me and shout heresy
and Blasphemy, I am not suggesting that Jigaro Kano was a fraud quite the contrary,
the genius of the man that he could take a basic wrestling style , then apply Japanese
training methods (Kata) and ideology, changing it from a regional wrestling
suitable for young fit men and change it
into a Martial Ant/Sport, Suitable for men, women and
children off all ages, sizes
and temperament. But wouldn't it be something
to be able to claim that a
local British sport was the fore runner
of the
most practiced and finest Martial Art/Combat Sport
the world hat even
seen, but then again, I am
only surmising .
MARTIN CLARKE, 5th Dan JUDO.
For thirty years I have
studied the Martial Arts/Sport of Judo, to me
the cream of all Martial Arts and Combat Sports, and in
that time I
have been quite successful
reaching 5th Dan Standard, International
Competitor, coached home and
abroad as a professional coach since 1971
With some degree of success,
and like most good Judo players I have
tried other forms of
grappling disciplines, i.e. Olympic wrestling, Sombo
Wrestling, at well at other
Martial Arts such at Karate, Jiu-Jitsu,
and Atemi Jutsu, reaching 3nd
Dan Jiu-Jitsu, 2nd Dan Atemi Jutsu, world
Silver Medallist in Jiu-Jitsu
and I am at the present, the British Team
Managed and Coach or the
British Sombo wrestling Team. The more I became involved in other Combat
Sports/Arts, the more I began
to question the origin of
Judo, and what I would like to do it to pose
a few questions to you, the
reader. I neither agree on disagree with
the following points.
According to history, Jigoro
Kano formulated his own style of Jiu-Jitsu and called it Kodokan Judo after studying
different styles of Jiu-Jitsu for just 4 years and all at the age of 22 years.
The idea of this new concept Judo was take all the dangerous parts away from
Jiu-Jitsu to make a safe and practical (also practicable) Martial Art. After
practising and watching lots of different Martial Arts from all oven Europe and
North America, and meeting high grades from all over the world, Judo always seemed
to stick out like a sore thumb, a definite aristocrat among Martial Arts, the
more different styles of Jiu-Jitsu I saw the
more remote Judo seemed remote
judo seemed from them, with the
exception of Goshin Jutsu and Atemi Jutsu, but then both these styles of Jiu-Jitsu
were invented by Judo men. Then in the early seventies I came across Sombo(Sambo)
wrestling, this is a Russian form of wrestling using a jacket, the Rules were
different but the concept was the same , so Judo was not a unique form
of grappling, further
information led me to find out that Sombo Wrestling
was founded in 1938, but
Sombo, a very fine sport, still did not have
the upright posture normally associated
with Judo, and had more in
common with Freestyle wrestling.
So maybe Kano did invent a new Systemof6 combat? But my doubts have been
awakened again, indecently on I.T.V.
they showed a one hour programme
on Cornish wrestling, and I could not
believe my eyes. Here was practically
a replica of what Judo was twenty
years ago, the clothing was
very similar to some old photographs I had
seen of Judo players at the turn
of the century, could this be just
another copy 0of Judo, on was
it an original concept? To find out,
I phoned the Cornish
Wrestling Association, and found out some
interesting facts.
1. They can prove Cornish
Wrestling dates back to the 14th-15th century.
2. A banner depicting Cornish
Wrestling was flown at Agincourt.
3. Cornish Miners, who at the
turn of the century emigrated to
Kenya and Australia, took
with them Cornish Wrestling
After Commander Perry opened
Japan to Western World many nations
traded with Japan, including Britain,
with many ships sailing from Plymouth, and could not some Cornish Seaman
arriving in Japan start practising there Cornish Wrestling and could not a
young Jigaro after seeing this and finding Jiu-Jitsu inadequate for his needs,
have based his new Judo on Cornish Wrestling? Before the Judo puritans attack me and shout heresy
and Blasphemy, I am not suggesting that Jigaro Kano was a fraud quite the contrary,
the genius of the man that he could take a basic wrestling style , then apply Japanese
training methods (Kata) and ideology, changing it from a regional wrestling
suitable for young fit men and change it
into a Martial Ant/Sport, Suitable for men, women and
children off all ages, sizes
and temperament. But wouldn't it be something
to be able to claim that a
local British sport was the fore runner
of the
most practiced and finest Martial Art/Combat Sport
the world hat even
seen, but then again, I am
only surmising .
MARTIN CLARKE, 5th Dan JUDO.
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